All Quotes and Proverbs

"If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence."

Simone Weil "Detachment"

God and Religion

"If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it."

Oscar Wilde "An Ideal Husband"

Marriage

"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

Winston Churchill

Time and Passing

Various

"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival?"

Clive Staples Lewis

Human

"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."

Reinhold Niebuhr

Courage and Fear

"If wine is fine, everything is fine, and if it's bad, never mind, as long as it is wine."

Julián Hernández

Health and Alcohol

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"

Vince Lombardi

Success and Fame

"If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war."

Carrie Snow

Peace and War

Woman and Man

"If women were good, God would have one."

Sacha Guitry

Marriage

Woman and Man

"If words were invented to conceal thought, I think that newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Science and Technology

Various

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill

Pain and Tears

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

Desmond Tutu

Justice

"If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you."

Natalie Goldberg

Reality and Imagination

Various

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Chinese Proverbs

Anger

Sorrow and Nostalgia

"If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water."

Herman Melville "Israel Potter"

Health and Alcohol

Richness and Money

"If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all."

Clive Staples Lewis "Mere Christianity"

God and Religion

"If you are what you eat and you don't know what you're eating, do you know who you are?"

Dr. Claude Fischler

Health and Alcohol

Human

"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."

Art Buchwald (b. 1925), U.S. humorist

Authority, Government

Various

"If you can actually count your money you are not really a rich man."

J. Paul Getty

Richness and Money

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse."

Walt Disney

Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

"If you can't appreciate it, you don't deserve it."

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Various

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a terrible warning."

Catherine Aird

Destiny and Fate

Good and Evil

Wisdom and Stupidity

"If you can't make knowledge your servant, make it your friend."

Baltasar Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Knowledge, Ignorance

"If you can't sleep, don't count sheep. Talk to the Shepherd."

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God and Religion

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

Napoleon Hill

Success and Fame

Various

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

Rabindranath Tagore

Pain and Tears

"If you depend on others to make you happy, you will be endlessly disappointed."

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Happiness

"If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist."

Quentin Crisp "The Naked Civil Servant"

Reality and Imagination

Wit and Humor

"If you do love me, you will find me out."

William Shakespeare

Love

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

Virginia Woolf

Truth and Falsity

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."

John Galsworthy "Swan Song"

Time and Passing

"If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Family and Loneliness

"If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything."

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Various

"If you don't have a dream how you gonna have a dream come true?"

Oscar Hammerstein from song "Happy Talk"

Dreams and Desires

"If you don't have enemies, you don't have character."

Paul Newman

Friendship and Hostility

"If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Art and Antiquity"

History and Nations

"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."

Michel de Montaigne

Life and Death

"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."

Mark Twain

Various

"If you don't trust your abilities, nobody else will."

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Trust

"If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."

Nikki Giovanni "A Dialogue"

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

"If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."

Ogden Nash

Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

"If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family."

Ruby Manikan

Education

Family and Loneliness

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."

Josh Billings

Happiness

"If you fear loneliness, then don't get married."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Family and Loneliness

Marriage

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

Maya Angelou

Various

"If you gave me something I need more than you do, you've given me a gift; If you've given me something you need more than I do, you've gifted me with love."

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Love

"If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through."

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Defeates and Mistakes

Success and Fame

"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."

Zig Ziglar

Friendship and Hostility